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  • All around me the happy atmosphere resumed its natural state.   (source)
  • Peg started giggling and resumed her knitting.   (source)
  • And I resumed the struggle.   (source)
  • He resumes his pacing, counting to himself, and reaches the wall.   (source)
    resumes = begins again
  • FRANK resumes his seat.   (source)
    resumes = begins again to take (goes back to)
  • Then the conversation was resumed—but this time in whispers.   (source)
    resumed = begun again
  • Whereupon Anne arose, took the pink heart gingerly between the tips of her fingers, dropped it on the floor, ground it to powder beneath her heel, and resumed her position without deigning to bestow a glance on Gilbert.   (source)
    resumed = took again
  • Dr. Gibbs soon resumes reading   (source)
    resumes = begins again
  • He resumed: "Come, let us see, Mathilde."   (source)
    resumed = began again
  • When this little interruption was over, Joe resumed:   (source)
    resumed = began again (continued after a pause)
  • he saw no obstacle to their happy life resuming its course.   (source)
    resuming = beginning again
  • When at last the clanking subsided, I resumed the trowel, and finished without interruption the fifth, the sixth, and the seventh tier.   (source)
    resumed = began again
  • The birds resume their song.†   (source)
  • The militants simply used the cash to buy more weapons and resumed their activities.†   (source)
  • Suddenly Sadge sprang up again and resumed his terrible shouting.†   (source)
  • By the end of the summer, the scraping of spoon and fork against the plate had replaced dinner table chatter and Baba had resumed retreating to his study after supper.†   (source)
  • Classes resumed on Ludus II the following day, and Ludus was left for the Sixers and gunters to fight over.†   (source)
  • "Ready to resume play?" she asked Wood.†   (source)
  • He and Mom decided we should move back to the desert and resume our hunt for gold without our starter money.†   (source)
  • He baked biscuits and gave them away; when his mother, tired of the mess, booted him from her kitchen, he resumed baking in a neighbor's house.†   (source)
  • Inger was smiling when she resumed her seat.†   (source)
  • I resumed my former habits — the aimless wandering, the examination of display windows, of theatre posters.†   (source)
  • My father resumed his job search.†   (source)
  • From the main control room, the confusing murmur of orders and responses resumed even as the loud male voice continued.†   (source)
  • Conversations resumed, and I quickly introduced Paul around while Susie fetched him a hot toddy.†   (source)
  • But later that summer when the war broke out, despite his injury he insisted upon resuming his place at the head of his regiment.†   (source)
  • Friedrich resumed.†   (source)
  • Once we picked her up in the afternoons, however, the battles would resume.†   (source)
  • The bronze sword expanded, gleaming in the darkness, and the evil voice seemed to falter, just for a moment, before resuming its chant.†   (source)
  • He turned his back on the two and moved toward the door so he could get upstairs and resume his night's sleep.†   (source)
  • You will resume fighting then.†   (source)
  • It took a moment before the officer recovered and resumed pushing him out the door.†   (source)
  • She drew a deep breath and closed her eyes, and her voice was thinner when she resumed speaking, as if that breath had cost her dearly.†   (source)
  • Around us the Triathlon Terrors had diplomatically resumed their chatter.†   (source)
  • Chuck nudged Thomas with his elbow and the boys resumed their walk to the edge of the crowd, then waited in silence; any questions Thomas had were forgotten.†   (source)
  • The shelling resumed sporadically after breakfast, and now, around six Rm.†   (source)
  • Resume 08:00 my time tomorrow morning.†   (source)
  • Danny relaxed his grip on Corinne's mouth and resumed having sex as easily as if he were picking up a conversation dropped in midsentence.†   (source)
  • 10 Alvin Hooks skirted the edge of his table and resumed the slow, fluid pacing of the floorboards that had been part of his strategy all morning.†   (source)
  • We resumed our search of the house and waited for the approaching wail of the fire engines.†   (source)
  • I resumed following her.†   (source)
  • After brief good nights, I went into the house, and it was true, there was a privilege to perfunctory farewells—we would resume our conversation tomorrow or the next day.†   (source)
  • He created a great resume for me and mailed it off to various surf companies.†   (source)
  • It wasn't something he'd put on his resume, but Jordan was especially gifted at cutting the rug to Wiggles songs.†   (source)
  • Less than a month after the New Year—after we had resumed our bombing of North Vietnam and Operation Rolling Thunder was back on target—Mrs.†   (source)
  • I'd seen the ad in The New York Times down at the Ole Miss library and mailed them my resume that very day.†   (source)
  • They resumed walking, waiting until her footsteps had vanished from their ears before speaking.†   (source)
  • As the game resumed, the wild-haired girl dropped the centaur's tail, and it went still once more.†   (source)
  • Slaves carried off the body, and the dancing resumed.†   (source)
  • His face resumed its dull expression.†   (source)
  • We resume our walk, me in one hand, the flowers in another.†   (source)
  • She laughs, but screams again as the Sentinel resumes her torture.†   (source)
  • "Anyway," resumed Obierika, "they killed him and tied up his iron horse.†   (source)
  • Sticky said, when the message broke off and didn't resume.†   (source)
  • When the pledge ends, life resumes.†   (source)
  • Heather hops on the treadmill and resumes scheming.†   (source)
  • Chastened, she resumed the tones of adult conversation.†   (source)
  • Jordan said that there was nothing he could do about it, and turned around, resuming his conversation.†   (source)
  • What passed for communication between them resumed when Mama Elena, who was inspecting the clothes each of the women had been sewing, discovered that Tita's creation, which was the most perfect, had not been basted before it was sewed.†   (source)
  • Finally, she says, "Give me like five minutes," and then sits back down and resumes her writing.†   (source)
  • John had resumed his studies with Dr. Bulkeley.†   (source)
  • I'm sure your husband's unit will resume paying his salary when he confesses, and we will return yours to its former level when you decide to cooperate.†   (source)
  • As she resumed her normal stride and approached the waiting area, she intercepted a nurse with a message for Jack Salmon in Room 582.†   (source)
  • Please, let the dancing resume.†   (source)
  • Since she had no means of finding out (though she did once try to get Kochu Maria to examine the bedsheets for stains), Mammachi could only hope that Margaret Kochamma was not intending to resume her sexual relationship with Chacko.†   (source)
  • "So the hours are pretty good then?" he resumed.†   (source)
  • Classics cut to fit fifteen-minute radio shows, then cut again to fill a two-minute book column, winding up at last as a ten —or twelve-line dictionary resume.†   (source)
  • The court returns there on Friday, and will resume examinations.†   (source)
  • Mr. Barbour had sat down again and resumed talking about his favorite topic: sailing.†   (source)
  • Twelve o'clock: I resumed my studies in the attic, reading about deans, priests, ministers, popes and ... whew, it was one o'clock!†   (source)
  • This was the resume of the man who was trying out for what might be said to be, without exaggeration, one of the most important jobs of the twentieth century.†   (source)
  • "Anyhow," Adam says, resuming his search for the light switch, "I can't go to her grandparents.†   (source)
  • I resume my romping in the yard.†   (source)
  • She might then resume with a gentle sigh—a signal that we were going to be forgiven— or just as easily explode out of her silence with: "But I will not be coerced!†   (source)
  • They stopped to eat at a McDonald's because Adam had a weakness for hamburgers and then they resumed the journey and the sun came out now and then.†   (source)
  • The woman at his feet glanced up when they came in, then bent over to resume her work.†   (source)
  • The police left after they had resumed some order.†   (source)
  • She seemed to almost billow into a curtsy before resuming her task.†   (source)
  • He looked at me and smiled a little before his face resumed its dullness.†   (source)
  • Sethe resumed her chair and the silence continued.†   (source)
  • Each time I awoke and resumed cutting, I would be made to pass out.†   (source)
  • I resumed my schedule, driving to work, writing my column, coming home again.†   (source)
  • It appears that Master Hemme wishes to resume your instruction at this point.†   (source)
  • "In any case," Mameha went on, "nothing will change until Mrs. Nitta lets you resume your training."†   (source)
  • The music would stop, and an irritated female voice resumed the quarrel.†   (source)
  • The rest of us resumed our game, but it wasn't as much fun now that our beloved captain was gone.†   (source)
  • She's grown it to her shoulders now, and allowed it to resume what appears to be its natural shade, light brown with bits of blond here and there.†   (source)
  • Becoming an Eagle Scout is just about the only thing you can put on your resume at age fifty that you did at age fourteen—and it still impresses.†   (source)
  • The party resumed, and Nathaniel quickly swung back to normal, drifting with the music and carrying on as if nothing had happened.†   (source)
  • I sat in silence for a few moments as Colton resumed his bombing campaign.†   (source)
  • Lately she had begun talking of returning one day to Dwight to resume her work for Dr. Keeley.†   (source)
  • And hastily he resumed his Bible reading.†   (source)
  • As he assaulted down the alley with members of his unit, he was wounded in the calf Upon receiving combat field condition medical attention, he resumed his duties and continued to suppress enemy fire.†   (source)
  • It may be years before this mission resumes.†   (source)
  • They had resumed their original positions, Ullman behind the desk and Jack in front of it, interviewer and interviewee, supplicant and reluctant patron.†   (source)
  • But when he was gone she heard the demolition blows of distant artillery, the unmaking of buildings, large-scale fighting having resumed somewhere, and she was worried for him on his drive home, and she thought it an absurd situation that she would have to wait until she went to work the following day to discover whether he had traversed the distance to his home safely.†   (source)
  • From his Sea Island, Georgia, retreat, Governor Faubus urged our leaders and school officials to allow a cooling-off period before resuming integration.†   (source)
  • Sophie had already resumed her place.†   (source)
  • Freezing a cell was like pressing a pause button: cell division, metabolism, and everything else simply stopped, then resumed after thawing as if you'd just pressed play again.†   (source)
  • What seemed sensible was to resume walking, waiting for it to gain on me; and as I did so I was again mocked by my own pace, and the distance between us remained the same.†   (source)
  • The wars resumed, but on a smaller scale.†   (source)
  • Under the bloody net Sean Junior and Michael resumed their endless struggle for supremacy in miniature basketball.†   (source)
  • After the elder Ramius again resumed control of his son's life, this religious education faded into Marko's memory, neither fully remembered nor fully forgotten.†   (source)
  • When there was no more information from the central government, the school eventually resumed its normal schedule.†   (source)
  • It's been at least five seconds since Hiro moved, so he checks this area for grappling hooks again and resumes his circuit around the edge of the yacht.†   (source)
  • Steamer crossings to Europe were resumed, after being suspended during four years of war, and new routes, this time to North America, became the rage.†   (source)
  • Her players resumed their practice shots, but they now seemed distracted.†   (source)
  • With Lee's surrender, soldiers shed their uniforms, turned in their weapons, and rode or walked home to resume their lives.†   (source)
  • On the fourth night, when both resumed their ordinary habits, Dr. Juvenal Urbino was surprised that his young wife did not pray before going to sleep.†   (source)
  • Had my personality crossed over that border, whatever and wherever it was, to resume life within the confines of the normal?†   (source)
  • Vanger resumed the history: "Gottfried Vanger died childless in 1901.†   (source)
  • Another two weeks and I'm able to resume all of them.†   (source)
  • Every Tuesday during my senior year he would bring in people to talk about job opportunities and how you can get jobs, building your resume, etc. Stuff that would help the players when their playing careers were over, and he took away from practice time to do that for us.†   (source)
  • Halleck sat back, resumed strumming the baliset.†   (source)
  • Papi returned home and had trouble resuming his routine.†   (source)
  • The movie resumed.†   (source)
  • The sooner I forgot the accident, the sooner my life would resume its normal pace.†   (source)
  • When Henri was Selected, his family put out a call for a reliable translator, and I submitted my resume, flew to Sota, and now I have a new job.†   (source)
  • Classes would resume the next day.†   (source)
  • In her arms Phoebe gasped, caught her breath, and resumed her crying.†   (source)
  • "But listen," he resumed.†   (source)
  • Babette's voice resumed its tone of straight narration.†   (source)
  • But then time resumes, and the air doesn't hold her, and as she drops there's a piercing sound splitting the darkness and again it takes me a long time to realize it's me, screaming.†   (source)
  • His voice, when he resumed, was measured.†   (source)
  • Nevertheless, just six weeks after that recall, the USDA resumed its purchases from Supreme Beef, once again allowing the company to supply ground beef for the nation's schools.†   (source)
  • Woineshet fled to Addis Ababa, where she moved into her father's shack and resumed her studies.†   (source)
  • They resumed their embrace under the covers.†   (source)
  • There, they built a fire and, after eating some of the rabbit meat they had carefully rationed, they returned for their sleds and resumed their journey.†   (source)
  • Then the train resumed its journey, leaving in its wake, in a snowy field in Poland, hundreds of naked orphans without a tomb.†   (source)
  • If you would like to resume your seats ...†   (source)
  • His wife said, "I do," resumed her darning, and was forced by tears to stop.†   (source)
  • "You know what?" he said, pointing up at the speaker, which popped again, louder this time, then hissed before resuming the theme song at full blast.†   (source)
  • Jason took a sip of his and resumed his report.†   (source)
  • And so down the line it went, with each guest rising briefly; making a short speech, and then resuming his place.†   (source)
  • Her face was changing, resuming its usual expression of gleeful malice.†   (source)
  • Everyone returns to the couch or chair where they were a moment ago, and the room's hive of conversation resumes.†   (source)
  • Ned Tym and his friends soon resumed their card game, but the other players' nerves were shaken and Ned soon drained them of money.†   (source)
  • Stoddard himself was well aware that a factory girl could not with propriety accept a seat in his car; yet when once they were settled side by side, and the car resumed that swift, tireless climb which is the wonder and delight of the mechanical vehicle, it was characteristic that both put aside definitely and completely all hesitations and doubts.†   (source)
  • He squirms around and finally clears his tbroat, and the nurse looks at her watch and tells us to bring the tables back in from the tub room and we'll resume this discussion again at one tomorrow.†   (source)
  • I think I'll call you Nala because you are a little lioness," I told her, resuming my scratching.†   (source)
  • As he watched, the blisters faded, the pain lessening, the skin resuming its normal pallor.†   (source)
  • He watches my face for a few seconds and then resumes nodding.†   (source)
  • Sunday night the firing resumed and again the British responded with full crescendo.†   (source)
  • And then Dad came in and the fighting resumed, and they didn't even notice that Seany was still sobbing.†   (source)
  • He then confessed that he had made several visits to the authorities to request permission for Tomas to resume his medical practice, if only locally.†   (source)
  • He didn't resume practice.†   (source)
  • Then she turned back to the Store and resumed, "Glory, glory, hallelujah, when I lay my burden down."†   (source)
  • And the conversation resumed.†   (source)
  • According to such a study, if DeShawn Williams and Jake Williams sent identical resumes to the same employer, Jake Williams would be more likely to get a callback.†   (source)
  • When the game resumed, it was not good any longer.†   (source)
  • She resumed her studies as a grown woman, hunched over a fifth grade reader.†   (source)
  • Instead, hair still dripping, they resumed the hike, gobbling snack cakes and sharing a can of warm soda.†   (source)
  • Why would he consider resuming his past life?†   (source)
  • Mother resumes her meticulous yarn architecture.†   (source)
  • I had written enough jail-house resumes by now to know that a lot of the ladies had only worked in the (enormous) underground economy.†   (source)
  • When they resumed, Stillman Rush took the handoff and dwelled on Simeon, whose family was more complicated.†   (source)
  • Yet when Marina finally arrives in Dallas, on November 3, their domestic battles resume.†   (source)
  • I resume following him and hope he knows where we're going.†   (source)
  • After I recov-ered, several months went by before I resumed my catechism.†   (source)
  • "The men had done their work badly," resumed Holly.†   (source)
  • With that he resumed his work as if they were not even there.†   (source)
  • I was blurred and vacant from the blow to my head and slept for nigh on a whole day and night before I was steady enough to resume my search for them.†   (source)
  • Any officer whose discharge of weapon resulted in termination of life was required to undergo emotional and psychiatric clearance before resuming duty.†   (source)
  • And the only reason he hadn't resumed his education after he'd settled Mother in was because his older sister needed him.†   (source)
  • The 28th threw all three of its battalions onto the line, and the hidden Japanese gunners resumed their harvest.†   (source)
  • Movement and chatter resumed in the cafeteria.†   (source)
  • No. The receptionist looked us over, then went back to typing something incredibly urgent—like her resume for another job.†   (source)
  • And with them gone, especially in northern Afghanistan, poppy planting had resumed with a vengeance.†   (source)
  • "Be quick about it," the old woman says when I appear in the kitchen to resume my duties.†   (source)
  • With immigration resumed after World War II, New York again became its doorway, and remains so to this day.†   (source)
  • "I'm sure I wouldn't be the first you drove to apoplexy," snapped Attolia, but resumed her climb at a slower pace.†   (source)
  • The "Dark Ages" were merely the resumption of a natural way of life that had been momentarily interrupted by the Greeks.†   (source)
  • The smiles on the harried stewardesses' faces became genuine again; full service was resumed as embarrassed passengers glanced at one another.†   (source)
  • An hour later, court resumed.†   (source)
  • When her letter resumes, she tells us "I was all turned around and more tired than I can ever remember being.†   (source)
  • When the case resumed a week later I was given permission to address the court before I was asked to plead.†   (source)
  • Resuming their positions, Enrique struck out the next batter, and the final hitter bounced a grounder to Angel at shortstop to end the inning.†   (source)
  • She tosses her head and resumes her work as if nothing's happened.†   (source)
  • Since I had not been spotted I resumed my public ways, took care of customers that week, bookkeeping machines and retrieval files at Carnegie Library, and spent time having Mike read out Zebra file and other special files, doing so in Room L of Raffles as I did not yet have my own phone.†   (source)
  • "Compañero Ugarte, you are responsible for causing a great deal of division among your neighbors," Celia resumes loudly.†   (source)
  • Constanza took Jessica's arm and resumed their march toward the cars, continuing where she had left off.†   (source)
  • Lorna cried, and resumed her mad howling.†   (source)
  • I bow my head, resuming the position of address.†   (source)
  • They waited until the door closed after him, then resumed their seats; they did not look at one another.†   (source)
  • With one section poised before his mouth, he resumed.†   (source)
  • Nothing happened at first, and then he heard a whispering that paused and resumed and then became a continuous rhythmic noise.†   (source)
  • The PRINCE considerately offers the RESIDENT'S wife his hand and dancing is resumed.†   (source)
  • Then lightning lighted the valley deep below, then more thunder, then the rain resumed.†   (source)
  • And Wulfgar resumed his wait, seeking the best moment to unveil his proposition.†   (source)
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